Maybe interesting, but not actually relevant as far as I'm concerned.
When I'm packaging, I don't care about the archive format of the binary packages. I care about the contents inside the source package archives and the tooling and documentation for working with those files.
(I'm also not super interested in third-party tooling like the author of the linked blog post was working on. I don't want to use something like Holo or FPM or whatever and treat the binary archive as a glorified zip file, naive of the base system and its conventions. I want to conform to the policies and norms of the target distro as far as possible, vendoring as few deps as possible, running the same linters that distro developers are expected to use, etc.)
When I'm packaging, I don't care about the archive format of the binary packages. I care about the contents inside the source package archives and the tooling and documentation for working with those files.
(I'm also not super interested in third-party tooling like the author of the linked blog post was working on. I don't want to use something like Holo or FPM or whatever and treat the binary archive as a glorified zip file, naive of the base system and its conventions. I want to conform to the policies and norms of the target distro as far as possible, vendoring as few deps as possible, running the same linters that distro developers are expected to use, etc.)